If I can post pictures I will show some of the damage to the timber in the swamp close to where I LIVE. We are very blessed with help from workers and I people from all over this great country helping. The electric lines are on the ground everywhere. Am trying to salvage as much of the hardwood as I can for ties. 20 days without electricity and counting . Crews from everywhere helping. Hopefully pictures will follow.
Stay strong my friend and give the family our best.
I'm couple hundred miles north of too-tired. pretty well recovered from laura. Lots of cleanup around the house, some minor structural damage..BUT, I haven't had time to tour my timber tracts. Out of power for 3 days, internet and phone for 5. X2 on too-tired's comments about help. Two extra utility crews in my area, one from north carolina, another from florida. Got a generator going in time to save 2 freezers of food. Grocery store shelves cleaned out quickly and fuel was not to be had. I'm still sawing logs from the tornado back in april. Two trailer loads from neighbors came in today, so the flood has started.
Hurricane Sally's eye is now predicted to veer East of us ~30 miles which will put us on the "dry"side so the rainfall is predicted to only be 1"-3". There is still the threat of wind damage and tornadoes. We will probably see our worst weather Tuesday.
I hope you all do miss the hurricane. Even a cat1 is bad news. Stay safe and dry.
I did not say anything yesterday, but we were on "pre-deployment" yesterday. got the alert at 4 pm. by 10pm last night, the State of Ks decided that we could go for the week, but then had to quarantine for 2 weeks when we got back. We would all be happy to go/come. If things are bad, we may reconsider. It is a large team that would be pulled from work rotations. It was a good practice run, as I spent the 6 hours getting ready. you have to be self sufficient for at least 72 hours (food, water, housing). and I of course needed medical equipment and medications. this was a good run through. and I hope we are not needed this go round for the sake of folks in LA. we were headed to Baton Rouge.
we were bringing an ambulance with the usual medications, but our pharmacy was getting together stuff we needed not usually on an ambulance, such as OTC meds, rapid sequence intubation meds, antibiotics ect.
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The predictor/tracker continues to push the storm further East which is good for me but there will still be a tremendous storm surge on our Mississippi Coast. Our predicted rainfall is now ~1", and it's still a tomorrow's event. The storm's eye is now predicted to be ~90 miles East of me before it goes to Atlanta GA.
Heads up WDH, I'm sending her to you. :o
The great majority of our utility work/recovery crews are still in the Lake Charles, LA, area trying to restore that area after Hurricane Laura. :-X
MM:
You wrote - "Heads up WDH, I'm sending her to you. (https://forestryforum.com/board/Smileys/default/shocked.gif)"
With the current western fires there are some out there who would thank you for a few inches of Sally,
if you sent it their way.
GAB
The predicted path for Sally has shifted further East and it now appears that it will barely touch the far Eastern corner of Mississippi if at all. Good news for us but not for Alabama.